TELL ME THE TRUTH! (Do these pants make me look "bad ass"?)

There are many things I am looking forward to this weekend. Vikings football, Ultimate Frisbee, and the premiere of the new season of 24. I love that show. It's so stupid and awesome, with yelling and torture and Jack Bauer punching terrorists while yelling. It's pretty much the perfect thing to watch after a dreaded Monday workday. So I think I'm going to have a weekly 24 blog post, recapping all the action and kill counts and who I think will die and so forth. I plan on continuing my regular weekly posts too. Bonus.

So far I think my favorite season of 24 was season 3. After last season wrapped up I borrowed that season on DVD to watch again (I needed to watch a good season of 24 after last year's AWFUL season!) I open up the DVD box and see a picture of Jack with the CTU team. They all look serious and determined, ready to take on any possible threat to America's safety. They all share the same look that says, "You wanna mess with us? With US?! I didn't think so!" I almost cautiously put the DVD box down and slowly backed away.

Then I unfold the box set and see this:


What the? Oh good lord. Are you kidding me? What is this, Jack Bauer's high school senior photo? Seriously, I'm pretty sure my older sister had a pose just like this for her senior picture, but even she looked more intimidating than Jack Bauer does here. It looks like Jack fell into the Gap. Is he going to fight the war on terror by looking sensitive? If I were a terrorist and I saw this guy was my opposition, I'd laugh my ass off, and then kick him and declare victory. Epic Fail, DVD photo person! We don't want the denim defender. We want this guy:


YES! He's got the American flag ON HIS FACE! U.S.A! U.S.A!